Improvement in whip-sockets



C. B. MOREHOUSE.

Whip-Socket.

' Patented Feb. 6, 1866;

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UNITED STATES v CHARLES B. MOREHOUSE, OF NEW CASTLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN wH/iP-sooKETs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,439, dated February6, 1866.

To all whom fit may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. MoEE- HOUSE, of New Castle, Henry county,State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements inWhip-Socket Fastenings; and I do hereby declare the following to be aneX- act description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a partof this specification.

Figure l represents the whip-socket, covered with leather or painted, asfastened to the dash of a carriage. tallic whip-socket with thefastening attached.

\ Fig. 3 represents the fastening.

The nature of my invention is in the construction of the ring and clamp,with the screw penetrating the ring from the outside,in combination withthe round metallic bottom and elastic top.

A represents the dash of acarriage to which the Whip -socket B isfastened. The whipsocket B i's made ot' metal and covered or painted,and has a metal ring, C, at top and bottom. The ring has a ange, D, thatrests against the rim of the Whip-socket, so as to t firmly to thesocket.

The ring C' has a notched and curved pro- Fig. 2 represents the 111e--jection, E, onits outer periphery, so as to tit closely to the roundingframe of the dash A and correspond with the shape of the frame.

The one end of the clamp Gr ts against the notch H, while the concaveside of the clamp binds the whip-socket to the frame A, and is securedby a screw, I, on the outside, that passes through the clamp and throughthe ring C. By this means the whip-socket is permanently fastened, andat any time attached or detached when required.

The bottom of the whip-socket is a round metallic plate, J, convex onthe outside, that is also held by the ange D of the ring C, and anelastic inside ring, K, at top isvalso held to the whip-socket by thering C.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The screw penetrating the ring from the the outside, and theconstruction of the rings and their clamps, in combination with theirmetal bottom and elastic top, as herein described, and for the purposesset forth.

- cHAs. E. MoEEHoUsE.

Witnesses z WILLIAM MOGRATH, BENJAMIN SHELLEY.

